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There was a time when city dwellers could more or less provide for their own food needs, but since the Industrial Revolution, the distance from field to fork has greatly increased--the average meal now travels 1,500 miles (2,400 km) to reach your plate. And, notes Bela, "the hidden cost of the food chain is the transport." Thus urban agriculture aims to help people save money as well as the environment...
...highly abstracted comic figure of a horse-policeman, with one red hand, presumably imbrued with blood, which may refer to Catalan street violence in the '20s. And his premonition of civil war was expressed in a single gloomy still life with an old shoe and a murderous-looking fork. Like most art that is genuinely inventive, as distinct from passingly novel, Miro's images grew from the past and drew on it for their strength. His sinuous and elastic line took part of its character from Art Nouveau calligraphy, the pervasive civic style of Barcelona in his boyhood...
...fact, those involved with BDSM say the behavior may be linked to success. Mistress Kimberley, an experienced dominatrix in London, says well-paid professionals make up the bulk of her clientèle; they fork over between $300 and $500 per hour for services ranging from a "sensual tie and tease" to "severe bondage and domination torture." Her clients' high-powered lives make them eager to submit. "They're running multimillion-dollar companies and make decisions all day, every day," she says. "They genuinely want to be submissive. They want somebody to treat them like...
...star of China's junior wushu team; in 1974 he performed on the White House lawn for President Nixon. So Chan's and Li's real ages, in Hong Kong action-movie years, are about 108 and 90, respectively. It's amazing that these guys can lift a fork, let alone a foot...
...dorm room doors, eye readers instead of keys. Manual locks are so passé. 6) Students will now get $600/semester in Board Plus. Greenhouse Café is going to have some long lines. 7) Plasma TVs mounted on dining hall walls, broadcasting pertinent information like which dishes require a fork. 8) Instead of “Savory Spotlights,” HUDS will fly someone’s mom in every week to actually do the cooking. 9) Make It Rain was decent, but PfoHo can outdo itself next year. Real Benjamins, baby. 10) Screw recruiting. Harvard...